De Roma 1894 - 1959

This story called 'De Roma' by Monogrammist G.J. is a mixed media work on paper. It's full of sequential vignettes in a muted, earthy palette, telling a story, and I can only imagine how this piece came into being, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with the artist, imagining them wrestling with narrative and composition. What were they thinking when they made it? Were they trying to capture a sense of fleeting moments and movements of the boy through color and line, texture, and surface? Look at the way the figure is rendered. The flatness almost feels like a graphic gesture. What I love about this piece is how the artist is in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring creativity and expression. Painting is an embodied form which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations. It is exciting.